A friend of mine bought these units (I think they are a basket liners to put warm rolls in) at a local linens shop for 50 cents each or something. She had had them for a while and in a declutter moment handed them all to me (9 with pink borders and 6 blue with borders) and said you'll know what to do with these.
That was about 10 years ago at least. I was musing over what I could create for the next border. I had a background fabric in mind and "POOF" the idea came to me to use these well aged machine appliques on my next border.
I'm not sure yet how wide to make the border or whether to add cornerstones or not. The prompt suggests we put quarter square units as cornerstones but I'm not sure the straight edges will go with all the curves.
More decisions to be made.
And evidently my DH thinks this is the right amount of whipping cream for his pie!!!!!
Robin
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7 comments:
Great idea for those appliqued borders...
that is a whole lot of whipping cream...I assume the pie is just an excuse to eat the cream hahaha....hugs,Julierose
I like the idea of appliqueing the embroidered motifs into your border. If you haven't caught up with Arne and Carlos on You Tube, you might want to have a look at what Arne is doing with recycled embroidered linens that he has thrifted. He is making hexagons out of the motifs and putting them together in a quilt. A mammoth task. Can't wait to see how it turns out!
Pure genius there, remembering those vintage applique pieces and putting them to creative use. Maybe your cornerstone blocks could be cut with curved "triangles" or have a smaller circle appliqued in the center to repeat the curvy theme. Seems the whipped cream always disappears before the pie slice, but your hubby may have that problem solved lol!
What a lovely use for those pretty appliques, they look beautiful! I bought a Christmas basket liner in the same shape with pretty appliques on each end at a thrift store years ago. It had some light stains in the center, and the stains seemed to get worse each year. So this year I cut off the ends like you did and will try to use them in a Christmas project.
I forgot to say, my husband likes his pie the same way! I have that same pie dish - it's my favorite :)
What a great idea to use the appliques on the basket liners, Robin! The colors are just right for your hollyhocks. Maybe, instead of QST squares for the corners you could use the larger flower circles? Or maybe you could applique one of the circles over the QST corners? Or not.... The tiny buttons in the star centers look just right.
At our house we call that having a little pie with your whipped cream. ;-) I have to make another pumpkin pie soon.
Great use of the basket liners! Gonna be very sweet looking! Love the way inspiration comes to us sometimes.:)
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